Prior to the Islamic Revolution in Iran, a mass mobilization for the freedom of Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine through strengthening its rank in the Arab and Muslim consciousness did not exist. After that revolution, all days became for the sake of Al-Quds. No day passes by in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the region, that Jerusalem is not present in its most prominent events. In fact, all the political developments and wars witnessed by the region since the outburst of the Islamic Revolution is but a step toward freeing Al-Quds and the whole of Palestine, including the sacred land of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Known circumstances have prevented the Arab World of carrying out its responsibility toward Palestine. The deteriorating states of the history of the Islamic and Arab Empires and mini-states paved the way for the 1948 Calamity of Palestine. The 1967 Defeat and the death of Abdel Nasser rendered Egypt an ally to the U.S., thereby an ally to those searching for a position in the shadow of the Zionist-American hegemony. Even the Palestinian Revolution, which came as a decisive response to the defeat, soon joined – with its most prominent factions – those who wanted peace agreements and liquidation of the Palestinian cause.

At a time where Syria was alone against the Strong Compliant Arabic mainstream, the Islamic Revolution of Iran came to continue from where the Arab Movement stopped toward liberalization. Iran was transformed from a country – under the rule of Shah – used as a Zionist-American club against the Arabs, into an Islamic Revolution – under the leadership of Imam Khomeini – that brought back the issue of liberating Palestine to the front. It has placed AL-Quds and Al-Aqsa Mosque as a priority in its future goals.

This attitude, not the dispute over Shatt Al-Arab, is the true reason for the war imposed by Saddam Hussein against Iran with great support of most of the Arab and Western countries. At that time, many western circles considered Iraq as the first line of defense against Iran, not only with respect to the Zionist entity, rather also Europe itself.

Despite all the hardships that Iran endured during the eight years-war along with the siege and constrains, it did not back down on its policies in opposing the Zionist-American hegemony and supporting the Palestinian cause in particular. Iran knows that such decline is liable to open up all the gates for regional and international superiority.

In this sense, Iran has worked to strengthen its alliance with Syria to help it withstand the pressures forced against the latter to force it to join the Compliant Arabic mainstream. It has also provided, in association with Syria, its infinite support to Hezbollah in Lebanon. This support was a major factor in liberating the Lebanese lands occupied by the Zionists in 2000, and in defeating the Zionist army in Summer 2006. Moreover, it provided support for the Palestinian revolutionary factions that were victorious in multiple events in Ghazah. Thereby, the issue of liberating Al-Quds and the whole of Palestine turned from a mere dream into a tangible possibility.

The U.S.-NATO invasions, funded by the Gulf petrodollar, of Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003, accompanied by the dissemination of the Western and American military bases in the region, is no coincidence. The dissemination of the military bases came as a response to the victories of the resistance, and as an attempt to encircle Iran from all sides. It occurred at a time where the time when the Zionist were victorious was clearly gone for good, and that the Zionist-American hegemony in the region has started its countdown.

However, the war on Afghanistan and Iraq has failed. The Iranian and Syrian support of the Iraqi resistance forces has played a major role in achieving this result. It is evident that the victories of the resistant forces in Lebanon and Ghazah, and the continuous remarkable achievements of Iran at all aspects of economic, political, military and scientific developments, have sparked panic within the hegemony forces and its allies. This has prompted the hegemony forces to create new strategies, among which is the elicitation of internal turmoil, particularly sectarian ones.

This is how the Takfiri terrorist groups appears with the direct and indirect support of U.S.A., the Zionist entity and their regional allies. They used these groups as tools in their war against Syria, Iraq, Iran and Hezbullah as a new line of defense of the Zionist entity, and as an obstacle in the triumphant way toward liberating Al-Quds and entire Palestine.

However, this obstacle will not be able to attains its goals, despite its ability to sabotage and create chaos; since its supporting environment is in a state of confusion as a result of crises that initiated an awareness to distinguish between friends and foes. The mass demonstrations in countries, such as Egypt, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, to mark the International Day of Al-Quds and to condemn U.S.A. and the Zionist Entity are but an expression of that awareness.

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